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Luke_A_Somers comments on Superintelligence 9: The orthogonality of intelligence and goals - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 11 November 2014 01:57:34PM 0 points [-]

It just seemed to me that as intelligence increases new beliefs about what should be done are likely to be discovered

It seems that way because we are human and we don't have a clearly defined consistent goal structure. As you find out new things you can flesh out your goal structure more and more.

If one starts with a well-defined goal structure, what knowledge might alter it?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 11 November 2014 10:28:28PM 0 points [-]

If starting with a well defined goal structure is a necessary prerequisite for a paperclippers, why do that?

Comment author: Wes_W 11 November 2014 11:10:40PM 1 point [-]

Because an AI with a non-well-defined goal structure that changes it minds and turns into a paperclipper is just about as bad as building a paperclipper directly. It's not obvious to me that non-well-defined non-paperclippers are easier to make than well-defined non-paperclippers.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 November 2014 01:13:37AM *  0 points [-]

Paperclippers aren't dangerous unless they are fairly stable paperclippers...and something as arbitrary as papercliping is a very poor candidate for an attractor. The good candidates are the goals Omuhudro thinks AIs will converge on.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 12 November 2014 01:47:51PM 0 points [-]

Why do you think so?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 November 2014 08:43:48PM 0 points [-]

Which bit, there's about three claim there.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 14 November 2014 12:06:29PM 0 points [-]

The second and third.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 14 November 2014 08:53:28PM 0 points [-]